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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark curly hair wearing a blue garment against a muted background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark curly hair wearing a blue garment against a muted background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark curly hair wearing a blue garment against a muted background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • partial left cropping

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. It shows the upper body and face of an individual with voluminous dark brown or black curly hair that frames the head. The subject wears a solid blue top with visible texture suggesting fabric folds. Skin tone appears medium-brown. Background consists of indistinct light gray and muted purple tones without discernible shapes. No text, symbols, or props are present. Composition is centered on the face with partial cropping at left edge.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark curly hair wearing a blue garment against a muted background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark curly hair blue garment
  • pixelated person image
  • centered face muted background
  • blue top brown skin tone

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • blue garment
  • medium skin tone
  • pixelated image
  • centered composition
  • muted background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901101947341699770423
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090110194738660718432
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6d2a023e003ce539be5c5283d395a4588d94ebbb2aefbb921baa02b875e8cfea.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
6d2a023e003ce539
SHA-256
6d2a023e003ce539be5c5283d395a4588d94ebbb2aefbb921baa02b875e8cfea
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 20:12 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010185

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:51 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.140917

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark curly hair wearing a blue garment against a muted background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:35 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,341 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,134, response 650

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • brown
  • gray
  • purple

Composition

  • centered face
  • partial left cropping

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. It shows the upper body and face of an individual with voluminous dark brown or black curly hair that frames the head. The subject wears a solid blue top with visible texture suggesting fabric folds. Skin tone appears medium-brown. Background consists of indistinct light gray and muted purple tones without discernible shapes. No text, symbols, or props are present. Composition is centered on the face with partial cropping at left edge.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark curly hair wearing a blue garment against a muted background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark curly hair blue garment
  • pixelated person image
  • centered face muted background
  • blue top brown skin tone

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • blue garment
  • medium skin tone
  • pixelated image
  • centered composition
  • muted background
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Full source records (2)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200901101947341699770423
Archive entry
200901101947341699770423.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901101947341699770423.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901101947341699770423.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20090110194738660718432
Archive entry
20090110194738660718432.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090110194738660718432.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090110194738660718432.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016